how many of them are republicans? hillary? biden?

oh well. dennis is officially “invisible.” perhaps they’ll broadcast what he says in the debates? or, they could go the Simpson’s route, and just put horn and tail graphics around him when he does…

If they just cut him out of the feed, who would know?

Except for us foily types, but who listens to us?

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan

For those of who you avoided wasting an hour of your lives watching the ABC debate this past Sunday (as I regrettably did not), Rep. Kucinich was almost completely ignored by the “moderator”, George Stephonopolis. He spoke 2, possibly a third time over the entire hour - his first chance to speak didn’t come until about minute 25, the second at about minute 45. And when he did get a chance to talk, George only gave him about a minute and a half. Ridiculous.

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who the little people need to hear most, that’s obvious. i mean, we can’t be expected to understand these really complicated beltway issues anyway, so why should we hear all those confusing alternative viewpoints? just stop asking hard kweshuns and listen to the comforting prattle from one of your three Official Media Approved Choices. those other folks are just for decoration.

As in the 2004 election cycle, when ABC News withdrew the off air producer it had assigned to the Kucinich campaign THE DAY AFTER Kucinich took then debate moderator Ted Koppel to task for questioning “…are you in this as sort of a vanity candidacy?” (full quote and Kucinich’s response here: http://www.commondreams.org/scriptfiles/… ), ABC’s motives concerning their recent coverage / lack of coverage are questionable at best. Cropping Dennis Kucinich, the only candidate to speak directly to the issues that matter to the American people, out of a photo before posting it on their web site is yet another means of directing attention toward the fabricated inter campaign feuds, and away from the truly substantive positions that the “top tier” candidates so woefully lack. Does ABC News actually think they can just make Dennis Kucinich disappear? He wins both their online poll and their subsequent replacement online poll, and yet he is utterly marginalized or completely absent in all of their post debate articles? As in 2004: YO! ABC, HOW ’BOUT COUNTING OUR VOTES BEFORE YOU PICK A PRESIDENT?

because they had to stretch the photo to make Hillary look so much wider than anybody else on the stage.

Seriously, look at that photo.

She’s been photoshopped.

It’s a little sloppy, because it got onto the white-haired candidate on her immediate right (Dodd?).

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!— Xan

I think it’s a weird lens rather than a photoshop job…sometimes at the edge of a shot things get stretched a little. It does look like Dodd has suddenly come down with a case of cranial facial microsomia. Maybe it’s a plot by a closet Dodd supporter on staff to make him look Linconesque.

But Hillary…there I’m not sure. There are shadows on the floor in front of everybody indicating backlighting, but as everyone is also clearly lit from the front there should be shadows behind their legs as well. These are present on all the men but I don’t see any for Hill. Hmm.

I agree with CD that this is the sort of thing a lens will do (and somebody on Hillary’s advance team need to tell her to stand somewhere else).

But I also agree with CD that I don’t see shadows…

We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan